Context 6As for you, son of man, groan with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan in their sight. 7And when they say to you, Why do you groan? you shall say, Because of the news that is coming; and every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes and it will happen, declares the Lord GOD. 8Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 9Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD. Say, 10Sharpened to make a slaughter, 11It is given to be polished, that it may be handled; the sword is sharpened and polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer. 12Cry out and wail, son of man; for it is against My people, it is against all the officials of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with My people, therefore strike your thigh. 13For there is a testing; and what if even the rod which despises will be no more? declares the Lord GOD. 14You therefore, son of man, prophesy and clap your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword for the slain. It is the sword for the great one slain, which surrounds them, 15that their hearts may melt, and many fall at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword. Ah! It is made for striking like lightning, it is wrapped up in readiness for slaughter. 16Show yourself sharp, go to the right; set yourself; go to the left, wherever your edge is appointed. 17I will also clap My hands together, and I will appease My wrath; I, the LORD, have spoken. The Instrument of Gods Judgment 18The word of the LORD came to me saying, 19As for you, son of man, make two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them will go out of one land. And make a signpost; make it at the head of the way to the city. 20You shall mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and to Judah into fortified Jerusalem. 21For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the household idols, he looks at the liver. 22Into his right hand came the divination, Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth for slaughter, to lift up the voice with a battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build a siege wall. 23And it will be to them like a false divination in their eyes; they have sworn solemn oaths. But he brings iniquity to remembrance, that they may be seized. 24Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins appearbecause you have come to remembrance, you will be seized with the hand. 25And you, O slain, wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end, 26thus says the Lord GOD, Remove the turban and take off the crown; this will no longer be the same. Exalt that which is low and abase that which is high. 27A ruin, a ruin, a ruin, I will make it. This also will be no more until He comes whose right it is, and I will give it to Him. 28And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach, and say: A sword, a sword is drawn, polished for the slaughter, to cause it to consume, that it may be like lightning 29while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for youto place you on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end. 30Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you. 31I will pour out My indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction. 32You will be fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken. Parallel Verses American Standard VersionSigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness shalt thou sigh before their eyes. Douay-Rheims Bible And thou, son of man, mourn with the breaking of thy loins, and with bitterness sigh before them. Darby Bible Translation Sigh then, thou son of man; with breaking of the loins, and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. English Revised Version Sigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness shalt thou sigh before their eyes. Webster's Bible Translation Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. World English Bible Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your thighs and with bitterness you will sigh before their eyes. Young's Literal Translation And thou, son of man, sigh with breaking of loins, yea, with bitterness thou dost sigh before their eyes, Library Carried Captive into BabylonIn the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign "Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem," to besiege the city. 2 Kings 25:1. The outlook for Judah was hopeless. "Behold, I am against thee," the Lord Himself declared through Ezekiel. "I the Lord have drawn forth My sword out of his sheath" it shall not return any more. . . . Every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water." "I will pour out Mine indignation … Ellen Gould White—The Story of Prophets and Kings Scriptures Showing the Sin and Danger of Joining with Wicked and Ungodly Men. 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